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Samuel Chunn |
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"Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North
Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that the
aforesaid sixty-three acres of land be and the same is hereby constituted
and established, a town by the name of Ashville [sic], and that John
Jarrett, Samuel Chunn, William Welch, George Swain and Zebulon
Baird, Esq., be and they are hereby appointed, commissioners for the
purpose of carrying into effect the plan of said town and disposing of the
lots in such a manner as they or a majority of them shall think
advisable;....(1922. Sondley, F. A. Asheville and Buncombe County, p. 92.)
"...was for many years a resident of Asheville. Here he kept a hotel at the southwestern corner of the public square, where afterwards stood the building occupied for many years as Asheville's first bank, the Asheville Branch Bank of Cape Fear, and still later by the Bank of Asheville, and afterward by the Western Hotel, and yet more recently by the First National Bank of Asheville....Samuel Chunn also engaged for many years at Asheville in the business of tanning leather. His tanyard was on Glenn's Creek at the place where Merrimon Avenue, for many years called Beaverdam Road and until lately Beaverdam Street, crosses it, about one hundred yards from the junction of that street with North Main Street. In October 1806, he was made the chairman of Buncombe County Court, and in Jan. 1807, was appointed jailer at Asheville. He was the original grantee from the State of the greater part of what is now called Sunset or Town Mountain, and owned land on both sides of that mountain. From him as the owner of the upper part of the valley of Ross's Creek next beyond the mountain east of Asheville, Chunn's Cove took its name. In later life, Samuel chunn lived on the bank of the French Broad River at the Chunn place in Madison County....He accumulated a large estate, which he left to his children at his death in Nov. 1855." (1922. Sondley, F. A. Asheville and Buncombe County, pp. 98, 99.) |
| "In 1806 he was chairman of the Buncombe county court, having been a tanner for years, his tanyard being where Merrimon avenue crosses Glenn's creek. In 1807 he was jailer, and from him Chunn's Cove took its name. He died in 1855 on the bank of the French Broad [river] in Madison country at what is know as the Chunn place where he had resided in his old age." (1914. Arthur, John. Western North Carolina: A History..., p.151.) |
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Bibliography Arthur, John Preson. Western North Carolina: A History 1730-1913. Raleigh, NC: Edwards & Broughton Printing Co., 1914 Sondley, Forster A. Asheville and Buncombe County. Asheville, NC: The Citizen Co., 1922 |
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